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Five Product Innovations that Evolved Over Time

IdeaScale

The product innovations that generate the most excitement and public interest are the disruptive innovations. However, these innovations aren’t that common. The most successful, innovative companies strike a balance between core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives.

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What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

Planview

The bulk of the webinar is based on a recent research paper— Accelerating innovation: some lessons from the pandemic —published by Dr. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

There are a few Dick’s employees with the word “Innovation” in their title and even more employees that participated in this product innovation campaign. The concepts that started in the ideation program are now being reviewed by the product development team for potential implementation. Commitment to Change.

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A Collaborative Product Development Stage Gate

IdeaScale

In order to manage a 500% increase in the volume of ideas, the Sustainable Development Business Innovation (SDBI) group instituted a unique workflow for each campaign (there are four major campaigns in the ideation community) and each workflow included several levels of review.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

The Components of a Productive Innovation Department. Berger suggests three critical components for building an innovation department: An outsider An insider who is known as a bit of a maverick A “snowplow” person whose job is to move obstacles out of the way so innovation can progress.

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016: Six Best Books on Creativity: The Classics that Teach the How and Not the Why

Innovation in Practice

Creativity in Product Innovation by Jacob Goldenberg. Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. Creative Cognition: Theory, Research and Applications by Ronald Finke, Smith Steve, and Thomas Ward. The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler.